StoryCodexThe Story Codex, Explained: Characters, World, and Timeline
A tour of the encyclopedia that StoryCodex builds for every book you read: the four tabs, entity profiles, inline lore marks, and the glossary that ties it together.
The Story Codex is the heart of StoryCodex. Open it from any book and you land on four tabs: Story, Characters, World, and Timeline. Everything in them is generated from the chapters you have finished, chapter by chapter, and everything is bounded by your reading position.
The four tabs
Story
Arcs, key events, and the overall shape of the narrative so far, summarized as the Codex understands it.
Characters
Dossiers with aliases, key traits, and connection counts. Tap in for the full profile with progression and relationships.
World
Factions, places, items, and concepts, each with its own profile showing rulers, occupants, and story context.
Timeline
Dated events with chapter references, so you can see exactly what happened when, and in which chapter.
Entity profiles: the KPI row
Tap any character or place and you get a profile page. At the top, a KPI row answers the questions you actually have: first seen, last active, and connections. Below that, attributes depend on the entity type. A character shows progression and relationships. A place shows who rules it and who is currently there. A faction shows its members and conflicts. Connections are clickable, so one profile leads to another as the story adds twists.
Codex marks: lore inline, not in a sidebar
While reading, StoryCodex highlights recognized entities right in the text: characters, places, factions, items, and concepts. Tap one and a compact lookup card slides up with key traits, recent developments, what happened in this chapter, and other connections. One tap and you are back in the story with no context switching.
The highlight engine combines a small on-device language model with the Android system's named entity recognition and a phrase catalog tuned for fiction. When the same character appears under two names, an embedding based resolution step decides whether they are the same person and merges them, so alias heavy web novels stay legible.
Spoiler-gated by design
The Codex only reflects what you have already read. Character profiles never reference events from unread chapters, the timeline stops at your current position, and recent developments always means recent in your reading, not in the story. The same rule applies to the Story Map and to story insights, because every extraction pass is anchored to a chapter range you have finished.
Codex glossary: the words you will see
- Story Codex
- The per book (or per series) encyclopedia of everything you have read so far.
- Codex mark
- An inline highlight on a recognized entity. Tap it for a lore lookup card.
- Entity profile
- A full page for a character, place, faction, item, or concept, with a KPI row and attributes.
- Extraction
- The process that turns finished chapters into Codex entries. Runs on device by default.
- Alias resolution
- The step that detects when two names are the same character and merges their entries.
- Spoiler gate
- The rule that bounds every Codex entry to your reading position, enforced structurally.
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